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...going is really smooth and the atmosphere really lively because Guys and Dolls belongs with the few musicals in any decade that can beam rather than swear at their librettos. Helped immensely at the source by Damon Runyon and in the staging by George S. Kaufman, the Jo Swerling-Abe Burrows book offers gags that don't seem like pressed four-leaf clovers, a lingo full of amusing genteelisms, humor that is disarming, good humor that is pervasive. Guys and Dolls would be virtually a model of its type if it were less insistent, or more convincing, about love...
...that there are no sinners [in the Senate] except the other fellow. Each man is busily engaged in trying to extract the mote from his brother's eye, and is not at all concerned about the beam...
...fingers cut off." In his monumental monograph, Surgery of Cataract (Lippincott; $30), New York Ophthalmologist Daniel B. Kirby traces the history of operations for cataract (a clouding of the eye's lens) from these harsh beginnings to such present-day refinements as air-conditioned operating rooms and parallel-beam light...
...egalitarian treatment of geese and swans, she writes with such grace and elegance that she is always worth reading. Her own virtues bring her home even when she is farthest off the beam. It is a joy to read her preface to 19th Century Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas; seen through the delicate, complex lenses of the Bowen prose, it seems a masterpiece. But anyone who takes the preface away from his eye, and looks squarely at the book, will see only a first-rate thriller about a mid-Victorian miss pursued by a bogeyman...
...Voice does not beam broadcasts to Japan-where the occupation authorities are doing their own effective information job-or to Indo-China, Burma and India (Radio Moscow diligently broadcasts to these countries). Recently the Voice has started successful broadcasts to the young Indonesian republic, which has proved inexhaustibly curious about...